David Irvine

True leadership comes from the identity and integrity of the leader. It’s about who you are and how you live. It’s about PRESENCE, not position. The power of authenticity is an enduring approach for renewing and sustaining workplaces that are depleted and where the human spirit is trampled, overworked, and undervalued. Now more than ever, the world needs leaders who are committed to substance over the superficial, character over charisma, and service over self-interest. We need authentic leaders –– people whose inner compass guides their daily actions and who inspire trust.

• Gain a renewed perspective on leadership that can be applied to all aspects of your life.
• Learn the difference between a boss and a leader and what it takes to earn the right to be called a leader
• Discover the true source of leadership power – your authentic presence – and how to connect more deeply with it.
• Acquire the missing link to sustained talent engagement and retention.
• Discover the key to build resilience and strong mental health in the midst of disruption and uncertainty.
• Learn a coach-approach to leadership: create a safe space to grow; persuade with trust; communicate with influence; build a uniquely tailored, inspiring growth plan with your team; set your team up for success.

Accountability is far too often viewed as a negative. But it’s at the heart of every great organization. Be inspired and learn a new approach to accountability.

• Gain an inspiring perspective on accountability.
• Transform blame, entitlement, and fear into courage, personal responsibility, and commitment.
• Inspire your employees to think like owners and foster accountability at every level of your organization.
• Learn an effective and powerful process for managing expectations that will prevent performance issues downstream:
  • Communicate expectations clearly.
  • Commit carefully and relentlessly.
  • Clarify support requirements.
  • Check up and follow through.

• Define a clear path for addressing performance issues when they arise: How to have the tough conversations.

Leadership isn’t defined by a person’s title, the size of their office, or the letters behind their name. Leaders are defined by their attitude, their actions, and their impact. In short, leadership is not about your position, it’s about your presence. Leadership is about connecting with the unique vision inside each of us that can make the world a better place.

In this personal, provocative, and practical session, you’ll get a profoundly human view of leadership from David Irvine, one of Canada’s premier thought-leaders in the field of authentic leadership.

• Discover how to make a lasting difference in the world – by connecting more fully to your authentic self.
• Learn the three fundamental decisions that turns an employee into a leader – and how your impact can change the world.
• Leave with practical insights and strategies for discovering and developing your personal authentic leadership.

Conscious leaders and researchers alike know that the key to opening the door to high-performing teams and inspired, engaged, accountable cultures is psychological safety. If people don’t feel safe to be who they are, to ask for help, to be honest, or to make mistakes, they simply won’t invest, participate fully, or be their best.

• How do you know if your team feels safe – especially if it isn’t safe to speak up and say so?
• What if people have had an unsafe experience with previous authority figures in their life and don’t feel safe around you simply because you are “the boss?”
• What is the employee’s responsibility to create a psychologically safe organization?
• How do you get a commitment to psychological safety when people don’t feel safe to get started?
• How do you know if it is safe to be aroundyou?

This thought-provoking, inspiring presentation will provide practical insights and strategies to assess, create, and sustain psychological safety in your culture.

• How do you define and assess psychological safety in your culture?
• What is the responsibility of every employee to create a safe work culture?
• How do you sustain psychological safety amid the tyranny of urgent demands?

We all recognize and understand the power of caring. But caring – to be sustainable – must come from overflow, not emptiness. In this inspiring, thought-provoking session, you’ll:

• Understand why caring needs to be examined through the lens of accountability so that it sustains, supports, and renews the human spirit.
• Discover why it’s vital to make the shift to principle-centered caring – and how to make this real in your organization and personal life.
• Learn the true work of caring: to empower those you care about in a way that’s sustainable for everyone in your organization and life.
• Get to the root of caring in your life and ways to care that support and sustain your own well-being and the wellbeing of those you love and serve.

Step back and gain a new perspective on caring from one of Canada’s most respected teams on authentic leadership and organizational culture, IrvineStone. This session is based on David’s book, Caring Is Everything: Getting to the Heart of Humanity, Leadership, and Life.

Building resilience, capacity, and accountability amid constant change – while keeping people engaged – is now a fundamental requirement for leadership. But where’s your road map? What are your strategies? Where are your tools?

To thrive, you must use change productively. We’ll leave you with practical insights, renewed clarity, and the confidence to lead yourself and others through managing change. This session, based on David’s most recent book, The Other Everest: Navigating the Pathway to Authentic Leadership, will help you:

• Learn to embrace and lead change with greater clarity and resilience.
• Develop the necessary self-awareness to use change productively.
• Create a roadmap for change that builds clarity, confidence, and compassion, enabling you to lead those you serve through the stages of change.
• Understand how to make change inspiring, productive, and creative.